Is it a common mental model, that in a chart visualizing a time dimension, the time is advancing to the right?
I'm currently working with the Internation Business Communication Standards (IBCS). They ...

Specifically, I am looking for something that facilitates the creation of skyscraper mental models.
I came across this post which illustrates how this can be achieved in OmniOutline and OmniGraffle:
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Instead of having one large subject pool of card sorting participants, has anyone ever tried segmenting their participants with a supplemental survey to define which persona they may fall into? If so, ...

We have created a mental model for a large website redesign project. We are in the process of mapping content and functionality to task towers.
While I understand how it gives an indication of what ...

The problem:
Handling company information with spreadsheets, including
Versioning over email
Lack of format consistency
Soft workarounds to Hard problems
Susceptibility to human error in data input
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My application manages a few types of entities, each of them has its own workflow.
For example - a task entity workflow will look something like this:
(this is a functional/logical drawing, this is ...

We have a system that has a few maintenance activities that run very quickly (less than a second). Problem is, when users look at the log file for the system, seeing an activity that ran for 0 seconds ...

How can I model relationships where one or more causes produces an effect? I hope that such diagrams may make some of my ideas clearer to the user than just a block of text. Are there some tools that ...

In UI design we often talk about "mental models" that users need to form. I'm wondering if there is a particular relationship between that mental model and the actual information model that the system ...